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Criticism, china increasingly crushes dissent in hong kong. Once a city of free speech, its government has imposed so called National Security laws to suppress all opposition, whilst the Chinese Communist Party Continues to harass dissidents overseas as my guest, the Hong Kong Pro Democracy campaigner finn law will explain china was the elephant in the room when foreign secretary lord cameron and defence secretary grant shapps visited australia to cement increased Security Cooperation between london and canberra. Britains bae systems will co build australias new fleet of Nuclear Powered submarines. As ill speak to the submarines. As ill speak to the former australian high commissioner to the United Kingdom, now National Security professor at Australian National university, George Brandis and from our global tour, well return to london and the world of theatre, as Stefan Kyriazis bnngs of theatre, as Stefan Kyriazis brings us his reviews of the latest productions. All of that to come. F
wee. and the high court in belfast will issue a landmark ruling today on whether the current ban on same sex marriage in northern ireland should be overturned. northern ireland is the only part of the uk where same sex couples are restricted to civil partnerships rather than marriages. we talk to the couples who have mounted the legal challenge. welcome to the programme, we re live until 11 this morning. obviously a level results don tjust affect the students, it s a big day for parents and carers too, so do get in touch if you ve been caught up in the stresses of results day too. we love this, from paris, mother, what were your results, the important thing is, i am what were your results, the important thing is, iam healthy what were your results, the important thing is, i am healthy and alive. you can get in touch on that and any of the stories we re talking about this morning, use the hashtag victoria live, and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.
also coming up, most of the historic world war ii aircraft making up the battle of britain memorial flight have been grounded. one display has already been cancelled. and production was halted on the 6th of march mission impossible film, because its star tom cruise broke his ankle while performing a stunt while filming in london. this is bbc news and these are the top good morning. it s thursday 17th august. i m rebecca jones. welcome to bbc newsroom live. thousands of teenagers across england, wales and northern ireland have received their a level results this morning. in england, the results marked a major reform to the exams introduced by the government, including a move away from coursework and modular exams in 13 subjects and a decision to separate as levels to form stand alone qualifications. there was a fall of 0.2% in the overall pass rate which was down to 97.9%. but there was an increase in the number of students awarded the top grades with 26.3% of entries
firecrackers you know pop pop pop pop. 7:01 sloggie / woken by gunshots c0025 6:17 i was in my room and watching tv early this morning i just heard shots fired. 6:22 you know who is gonna do anything? youre gonna stay where you are at. im not gonna go investigate whats going on. 6:27 in this case, police arrested a suspect nearby and in a short amount of time. but still its another victim sent to the hospital with life threatening injuries. brian sloggie / woken by gunshots c0025 7:30 well its everyday. you look at the virginia beach, suffolk, chesapeake, portsmouth whatever. it s scary man. 7:40 sloggie might speak for all people this weekend. in a 48 hour span,,, 6 shootings. the most recent in portsmouth, the most deadly, the murder on kingston avenue saturday afternoon. where neighbors say the violence is too common. vanessa carter-west / neighbor c0032 1:27:41 god only knows what happened here today, but its just like over fear. 1:27:49 at least on kingston av